On September 29–30, 1941, 33,771 Jews were marched to the Babi Yar ravine and shot by the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing squads).
Babi Yar is often cited as the largest single massacre under the Nazi regime at that point in the war. 🏛️ Post-War Context & Memory
Abstract: After the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, the Wehrmacht occupied much of the western Soviet regions. Gettysburg College
The German military command used these explosions as a pretext to "liquidate" the Jewish population of Kyiv.
Explores complicity, the "Holocaust by Bullets," and the subsequent Soviet attempts to erase the memory of the site.
The documentary situates the massacre within the broader invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa).